On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 05:35:37PM +0200, Markus Fischer wrote (in a privatemessage - I hope he doesn't mind my quoting him in public):

> Maybe you have an dma problem with one of you disks/cdrom ?> We know linux does not jet support all types of chipsets 100%.> I have some own my own which hangs the machine when i try to> mount a cdrom (dma enabled).

This machine had two drives, one on each IDE controller. hda had DMA onafter booting; on hdc, DMA was off, although I was able to turn it on oncewith no apparent ill effects. (It was off at the time of the crash.)